Yvette Melendez, LCSW

Yvette Melendez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship or parenting stresses. She invites clients to talk about difficult feelings and life changes in a calm, nonjudgmental way. Her approach is steady and patient, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.

With four decades of experience, she draws on long practice to listen closely and notice patterns that keep problems repeating. She uses psychodynamic therapy to look at how past experiences shape current reactions and relationships. Sessions focus on uncovering habits of thought and feeling so people can make different choices.

She also supports people dealing with caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, adoption and foster-care concerns, and the challenges that follow divorce or immigration. Work can include coping strategies for sleep, eating, anger, and addiction-related worries. Yvette pays attention to how culture and family history influence a person’s situation.

Her style is conversational and reflective. She asks questions, offers observations, and helps clients try out new ways of responding to stress. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.

Yvette practices in New York and brings a long history of clinical work to sessions. If you want to begin, you would complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.

How psychodynamic work adapts to online therapy

Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past relationships and early experiences shape current feelings and behavior. It often focuses on patterns that repeat in relationships and emotions, helping people understand why they react a certain way and try different responses.

Yvette uses a reflective, listening-focused style that fits well with psychodynamic work. She will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences rather than applying one fixed method. Figuring out the right approach is part of the therapy process and happens together over a few sessions.

If you are considering online options, confirm the specific session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals often adapt psychodynamic conversation to remote sessions so people can work on long-standing patterns, cope with grief, manage caregiver stress, or address aging-related concerns without rearranging their whole day.